These are stories associated with competition.
April 12th, 2019. After a smooth year of design work and fabrication, the Steel Bridge team was confident they had built a winning bridge. Load testing was successful back in March, and the build team had practiced for a full month to perfect their build time. When the time came to compete, the team was…
April 23th-24th…The steel bridge team did well over all! The S&T construction crew built the bridge in under 22 minutes when many teams took over 30 minutes. The bridge was working beautifully until one weld failed due to the load causing the bridge to deflect over the 3 inch limit. In the end, everyone could…
May 23-24, 2014 – Rolla students faced some stiff competition at the national conference this year, but that didn’t stop the team from ranking in multiple categories. The MST team was able to construct their bridge in only 7 minutes and 16 seconds with only 3 builders while many other teams took well over 10 minutes…